Summertime, and the living is list-filled… Here comes another reading list to pile the to-dos onto your TBR pile! Amazon has just come out with a list of ’100 Children’s Books to Read in a Lifetime.’ Our friends a...

The latest figures brought together in the Books & Consumers 2013 UK Annual Review from Nielsen Book, which “provides an overview of consumer book purchasing in the UK in 2013 compared to 2012, using data based on 80‐90,000 boo...

by Joan Stewart Last month, I wrote about 11 Juicy Opt-in Offer Ideas Your Readers Will Love–alternatives to the not-so-glamorous ebook that you can give away in exchange for someone’s email address. This month, let’s r...

Is it possible to build an e-book website to challenge Amazon on a crowd-sourced basis? We might be about to find out. Over the next two days in New York a team of about 20 volunteers will attempt to do precisely that. Led by Chris Kubic...

Last week at Comic-Con in San Diego Comixology announced that they will now offer DRM-free downloads of comics purchased from Comixology. This allows readers the option to save comics for backup outside of the Comixology app. Not all tit...

Alloy Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that produces television shows and packages books, has partnered with Amazon Publishing on a digital-first imprint. The first three titles are out today (details below). The imprint, called Allo...

UK Police Start Replacing Ads on Copyright Sites with Warnings (GigaOm) The new “Operation Creative” tactic is designed to tackle the funding of copyright-infringement websites without making users vulnerable to malware, as an earlier pi...

Amid the chaos of refugee life, traditional verse is flourishing again as troops seek to drive militants from North Waziristan For more than five centuries, poets in remote north-western Pakistan have recited verses about the areas mount...

There are reports that Amazon has a Square reader-like device in the works, one that will plug into a smartphone or tablet (presumably not only the Fire phone or Kindle Fire) and allow small business people to take advantage of the relia...

In our new summer series, Charlotte Jones collates the perfect literary companions for four US city breaks. This week, the metropolis that has inspired writers from John Dos Passos to Don DeLillo From the "gilded age" of Edith ...

Northern Ireland libraries have been loaning out eBooks since 2009. Patrons have recently been embracing the digital platform, as the digital collection improves. When eBooks first became available at Northern Ireland Libraries in 2011, ...

When the Internet really started to take off and companies were making e-commerce profits hand over fist, all it took to make money was an idea and just enough technical skill to hang a web-shingle. Many years later, in much the same way...

July 29, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is THE HUNGER GAMES – the suspense novel everyone has been buzzing about – for just $1.99. Overview The book no one can stop talking about . . . In the ruins of […]

Welcome to the Monday edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show with Michael Kozlowski and Mercy Pilkington. Today, we talk about the new Amazon Credit Card Reader and how its a boon to indie authors to accept mobile payments while at even...

Two articles came my way this morning on the subject of subscription services—one on Next Issue, an all-you-can-read magazine service, and the other on Scholastic’s decision to close their eBook ‘store’ and replac...

Buying that special someone a book for their birthday or Christmas is on the decline in the United Kingdom. The Nielsen Book Survey has just decreed that the share of books bought as gifts fell from 24% to 22% – equating to a decre...

Who remembers killing time on those long car trips playing “I spy with my little eye…”? For this week’s App Buzz, the NOOK team has selected four Hidden Object games that give the tried-and-true pastime a new spin...

There is no true path of ownership when you purchase eBooks, digital comics or manga from online retailers. Instead, you are merely granted a license and if the store closes you will lose everything. In the last few years we have seen Bo...

The roots of English anti-intellectualism and willful ignorance are long, deep, and twisted. The consequences you can see all over, in terms of literacy levels, reading habits, social order, and even prison numbers, and many other metric...

Scholastic is closing its children’s book platform app Storia in favor of pushing its subscription model reading platform Storia School Edition. “With the launch of Storia School Edition on September 1, Scholastic will transition t...

Photo credit: Lisa L. Nasca, Photographic Images Unlimited. With the release of her 21st thriller, The Perfect Stranger , NY Times bestselling suspense novelist Wendy Corsi Staub will have published more than eighty novels in various gen...

Last week, bestselling Indian English author Chetan Bhagat tweeted this about the Gaza-Israel conflict to his almost 3 million followers: What is happening to Gaza isn't fair but sadly that is the only way sometimes terrorist organiz...

ST PAUL, Minn., July 28 (Reuters) - A jury in Minnesota said on Monday that after about five days of deliberations, it could not reach a verdict in a defamation case brought by former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura against the estate o...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about trying something new for 30 days. The idea came from a TED Talk by Matt Cutts , who decided to write a book in 30 days. It's a great way to tick something off your life list, learn somethi...

By: Kelly Dickerson, Staff Writer Published: 07/28/2014 07:55 AM EDT on LiveScience For parents looking to teach their children a lesson about honesty, a new study suggests "George Washington and the Cherry Tree" is a more useful moralit...

Do you like to drink while you are reading? BookGirl.TV host Tessa Smith-McGovern has authored a cookbook to help you figure out which drinks to pair with which authors. Cocktails for Book Lovers , out this month from Sourcebooks, includ...

Words are hard. Whether it's due to a language barrier , a post-op haze or something else entirely , we've seen your struggle with the English language. And we feel for you! In fact, we'd like to toast your occasional memory lapse, since...

In a second adventure for a husband-and-wife detective team, the couple takes on underworld turf wars and a threat closer to home. For DC Kathleen Doyle, courtship has come only after her secret marriage to her boss, DCI Michael Sinclair...

A debut political thriller about a Russian plot to take over the United States. Taylor Clark is a former special operative for the United States government who’s now trying to live a quiet life with his girlfriend, Carmen, and his Labrad...

Though she’s on vacation, an otherwise airheaded California girl is determined to come to grips with the serious business behind a murder. Through some sort of complicated contest she can barely remember (as if she could remember anythin...

About that 18-and-a-half minutes of lost tape…. In this 40th anniversary year of Richard Nixon’s gloomy evacuation of the White House, former staffer and ever since bête noire Dean ( Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destr...

Tricky Dick: The nickname that keeps proving itself does so once more here. It’s no surprise to have confirmation, in a general way, that Richard Nixon was a master of the abuse of power, for which even Republicans haven’t quite forgiven...

A detailed lesson plan for tapping into “the divinity that is already inside of you.” Kelley’s ( Healing Through Past Life Regression...and Beyond , 2012) latest book opens with a foreword by best-selling author and motivational speaker ...

The daughter of a pastor and a young man on the run from a Cuban drug cartel get past their initial animosity to fall in love in this sexy romance. Prickly, wary 18-year-old Diego is disgusted with the beautiful and collected young woman...

Baby Sam, a reluctant eater, finally takes a bite with the help of the spoon-as-airplane trick. The book comes with a set of cardboard wings that adults can punch out of the back of the book and then fold around any adult-sized spoon to ...

True crime meets rare, expensive French wine. There’s not much actual poison in the narrative. In reality, the plot involved just one sick mind attempting to extort €1 million from one of the richest men in France. This ...

Figures from Jewish mysticism and mythology, a Russian grandfather’s legacy and the fate of a newborn child entwine in an inventive if at times obscure debut. With its wheeling stars, magical rabbi, disgraced angels, black dogs and Europ...

Sparks fly when Arran MacLawry and Mary Campbell meet at a London ball, and the fact that their families are sworn enemies only adds to their interest in each other. Trying to escape the annoying clutches of his sister’s best frien...

The creator of the Robert Chow mysteries ( One Red Bastard , 2012, etc.), set in New York’s Chinatown in the 1970s, turns to contemporary Taiwan for this ambitious, muddled tale of murder in a culture that sees itself as both the c...

The 17 stories in Chiusano’s debut collection center on the people and events in a remote neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn. Many of these stories feature family dramas and childhood memories with several recurring characters, mos...

Lacey St. James has hit rock bottom; just as she decides she needs to make changes, she meets Everett, an intriguing stranger who helps her make more empowering choices. Lacey has an abusive boyfriend, an abusive family and abusive frien...

A busy Washington lawyer returns home to sort out the details of her sister’s shadowy life and suspicious death. When Alma Terrebonne receives word that her younger sister has died, she flies back to her hometown of Billings, Monta...

After a terrorist attack on a plane kills his wife and two daughters, mob superboss Vincent "The Wolf" Marelli unleashes a plot against terrorist networks with the support of crime syndicates from around the globe. Thirty-two-year-old Vi...

Kubica’s psychological thriller centers on the abduction of a young teacher. Mia Dennett comes from massive wealth, and that made her a juicy target. Chicago Police Detective Gabe Hoffman is assigned to lead the official search and...

An American physician in post–Revolutionary War England takes on a potent drug, a baffling murder and a determined rival. When the headless body of botanical artist Matthew Bartlett is found tied to a pier in the Thames, anatomist Dr. Th...

SPOILER WARNING – Because Magic Breaks is Book 7 in the Kate Daniels series, there are unavoidable series spoilers found within this review. I’d also highly encourage readers new to the series to begin at the start of the ser...

My pals Lynne and Michael Damian Thomas (3-time Hugo winner and 3-time Hugo nominee, respectively), are hoping to start a new science fiction and fantasy magazine and are also hoping you’ll help them kickstart this ambition. They&#...

Poetry News: Seen with some of the poems are hotel manager Tony Holden, Danielle Hardy and Zaffar Kunial, poet in residence at Dove Cottage THE literary heritage of the Lake District took a 'small' turn when the landmark Lindeth Howe Hot...

Poetry News: The World Cup may be over, but another big competition is about to begin, as poets from all over the country are gearing up for the 2014 National Poetry Slam this August in Oakland, California.Link!

Poetry News: r. Gabor Barabas has loved poetry since he was a child, growing up in post-Holocaust Hungary. He listened to his elderly relatives read grand, resounding verses, and he dreamed of becoming a poet himself. It wasn't until Bar...

The imprint will focus on young adult, new adult, and commercial fiction. The first three books are: Every Ugly Word by Aimee Salter, a coming-of-age story about a teenager named Ashley who sees her 23-year-old self when she looks in the...

Here's a look at the titles we love that hit shelves this week. No LOVING ROSE ROGUE WITH A BROGUE A GOOD DEBUTANTE'S GUIDE TO RUIN CLAIMED BY THE LAIRD I ADORED A LORD THE MISTRESS OF NORMANDY WHY LORDS LOSE THEIR HEARTS "Anot...

Internet hoaxes - intentional or not - happen all the time. And it's getting harder and harder to figure out what's true and what isn't. Author Charles Seife explains how to separate facts from fiction.

Buckle in, kids. Nick Harkaway, the critically acclaimed, award-nominated, and best selling author of the brand new book Tigerman, is about to get deep on y’all — and also, tell you a little about his new book, which is alrea...

Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, save up to 50% on select best-selling Logitech PC gaming products, including the G700s rechargeable gaming mouse and the G710+ mechanical gaming keyboard. In the Lightning Deals in a few minutes, I see V...

In addition, Perkins has put together a special tote bag of goodies that will be awarded to twenty-five winners from each store. To entice readers even further, a five-chapter excerpt from the book has been posted online. “To reach...

The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: The Ladies’ Roomv (£0.99 UK; $1.99/KU US) by Carolyn Brown [Montlake Romance] Secrets told in the church ladies’ room are supposed to stay in the ladies’ room. But that d...

Expand your literary horizons with New Books!, a weekly newsletter spotlighting 3-5 exciting new releases, hand-picked by our very own Liberty Hardy. Sign up now! ____________________ Never judge a book by its cover. We all know this app...

There are so many great new books coming out all the time, it’s just about impossible to keep track. There’s the new release by your favorite author and the buzzed-about debut you’ve been meaning to pick up on release d...

Welcome to the Dear Book Nerd podcast, a biweekly show that answers YOUR questions about life, love, and literature! My guest co-host this week is the effervescent Cindy Pon, author of YA fantasy books Silver Phoenix and Fury of the R...

It makes no sense to me now how a dedicated reader goes to college to study literature and does not do all the required reading. My decision to major in English was tortured, because the cost of my education weighed … Continued You...

In this edition of Adventures Of A Comic Newbie, Amanda tackles some of the more confusing terminology in comic books: the format words (dun dun duuuunnnnn). What is a “trade”, and how is it different from a “graphic no...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a book is always* better than its film and/or television adaptation. Hollywood loves to mine the book world for stories, new and old, that can be re-imagined and brought to the big and … ...

Budding poets are being invited to take part in a competition to win £1,000. Entry is completely free and anyone, young or old is invited to enter the competition organised by United Press Ltd. All you have to do is send a poem about Has...

The selection of 20 titles was voted for by the public after the Baileys women’s prize for fiction launched a campaign to find the novels, by women, “that have most impacted, shaped or changed readers’ lives̶...